jc.chakra-autocomplete

Chakra-UI AutoComplete

An Accessible Autocomplete Utility for Chakra UI that composes Downshift ComboBox

Install

*Warning This Package is still WIP at the Moment and there might be some missing features

npm install --save chakra-ui-autocomplete

Usage

• Usage Example with TSX/Typescript

import React from 'react'
import { CUIAutoComplete } from 'chakra-ui-autocomplete'


export interface Item {
  label: string;
  value: string;
}
const countries = [
  { value: "ghana", label: "Ghana" },
  { value: "nigeria", label: "Nigeria" },
  { value: "kenya", label: "Kenya" },
  { value: "southAfrica", label: "South Africa" },
  { value: "unitedStates", label: "United States" },
  { value: "canada", label: "Canada" },
  { value: "germany", label: "Germany" }
];

export default function App() {
  const [pickerItems, setPickerItems] = React.useState(countries);
  const [selectedItems, setSelectedItems] = React.useState<Item[]>([]);

  const handleCreateItem = (item: Item) => {
    setPickerItems((curr) => [...curr, item]);
    setSelectedItems((curr) => [...curr, item]);
  };

  const handleSelectedItemsChange = (selectedItems?: Item[]) => {
    if (selectedItems) {
      setSelectedItems(selectedItems);
    }
  };

  return (
        <CUIAutoComplete
          label="Choose preferred work locations"
          placeholder="Type a Country"
          onCreateItem={handleCreateItem}
          items={pickerItems}
          selectedItems={selectedItems}
          onSelectedItemsChange={(changes) =>
            handleSelectedItemsChange(changes.selectedItems)
          }
        />
  );
}

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• Usage Example with JSX/Javascript

import React from 'react'
import { CUIAutoComplete } from 'chakra-ui-autocomplete'

const countries = [
  { value: "ghana", label: "Ghana" },
  { value: "nigeria", label: "Nigeria" },
  { value: "kenya", label: "Kenya" },
  { value: "southAfrica", label: "South Africa" },
  { value: "unitedStates", label: "United States" },
  { value: "canada", label: "Canada" },
  { value: "germany", label: "Germany" }
];

export default function App() {
  const [pickerItems, setPickerItems] = React.useState(countries);
  const [selectedItems, setSelectedItems] = React.useState([]);

  const handleCreateItem = (item) => {
    setPickerItems((curr) => [...curr, item]);
    setSelectedItems((curr) => [...curr, item]);
  };

  const handleSelectedItemsChange = (selectedItems) => {
    if (selectedItems) {
      setSelectedItems(selectedItems);
    }
  };

  return (
        <CUIAutoComplete
          label="Choose preferred work locations"
          placeholder="Type a Country"
          onCreateItem={handleCreateItem}
          items={pickerItems}
          selectedItems={selectedItems}
          onSelectedItemsChange={(changes) =>
            handleSelectedItemsChange(changes.selectedItems)
          }
        />
  );
}

Usage Example with Custom Item Renderer

import React from 'react'
import { Text, Flex, Avatar } from '@chakra-ui/react'
import { CUIAutoComplete } from 'chakra-ui-autocomplete'


const countries = [
  { value: "ghana", label: "Ghana" },
  { value: "nigeria", label: "Nigeria" },
  { value: "kenya", label: "Kenya" },
  { value: "southAfrica", label: "South Africa" },
  { value: "unitedStates", label: "United States" },
  { value: "canada", label: "Canada" },
  { value: "germany", label: "Germany" }
];

export default function App() {
  const [pickerItems, setPickerItems] = React.useState(countries);
  const [selectedItems, setSelectedItems] = React.useState([]);

  const handleCreateItem = (item) => {
    setPickerItems((curr) => [...curr, item]);
    setSelectedItems((curr) => [...curr, item]);
  };

  const handleSelectedItemsChange = (selectedItems) => {
    if (selectedItems) {
      setSelectedItems(selectedItems);
    }
  };

  const customRender = (selected) => {
    return (
      <Flex flexDir="row" alignItems="center">
        <Avatar mr={2} size="sm" name={selected.label} />
        <Text>{selected.label}</Text>
      </Flex>
    )
  }



  return (
          <CUIAutoComplete
            tagStyleProps={{
              rounded: 'full'
            }}
            label="Choose preferred work locations"
            placeholder="Type a Country"
            onCreateItem={handleCreateItem}
            items={pickerItems}
            itemRenderer={customRender}
            selectedItems={selectedItems}
            onSelectedItemsChange={(changes) =>
              handleSelectedItemsChange(changes.selectedItems)
            }
          />
  );
}

Props

Property	Type	Required	Decscription
items	Array	Yes	An array of the items to be selected within the input field
placeholder	string		The placeholder for the input field
label	string	Yes	Input Form Label to describe the activity or process
highlightItemBg	string		For accessibility, you can define a custom color for the highlight color when user is typing also accept props like yellow.300 based on chakra theme provider
onCreateItem	Function	Yes	Function to handle creating new Item
optionFilterFunc	Function	Yes	You can define a custom Function to handle filter logic
itemRenderer	Function		Custom Function that can either return a JSX Element or String, in order to control how the list items within the Dropdown is rendered
labelStyleProps	Object		Custom style props based on chakra-ui for labels, Example `{{ bg: 'gray.100', pt: '4'}}
inputStyleProps	Object		Custom style props based on chakra-ui for input field, Example`{{ bg: 'gray.100', pt: '4'}}
toggleButtonStyleProps	Object		Custom style props based on chakra-ui for toggle button, Example `{{ bg: 'gray.100', pt: '4'}}
tagStyleProps	Object		Custom style props based on chakra-ui for multi option tags, Example`{{ bg: 'gray.100', pt: '4'}}
listStyleProps	Object		Custom style props based on chakra-ui for dropdown list, Example `{{ bg: 'gray.100', pt: '4'}}
listItemStyleProps	Object		Custom style props based on chakra-ui for single list item in dropdown, Example`{{ bg: 'gray.100', pt: '4'}}
selectedIconProps	Object		Custom style props based on chakra-ui for the green tick icon in dropdown list, Example `{{ bg: 'gray.100', pt: '4'}}
icon	Object	CheckCircleIcon	@chakra-ui/icons Icon to be displayed instead of CheckCircleIcon

Todo

• [ ] Add Combobox Support for Single Select Downshift Combobox
• [x] Multi Select Support
• [x] Feature to Create when not in list
• [x] Add prop for Items Renderer to enable rendering of React Element
• [ ] Ability to define chakra-ui components that will render in place of Tags, MenuList, TextInput, Form Label will check render props or headless UI patterns.

License

MIT © koolamusic